A former Senate President, Ameh Ebute, has faulted claims by a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr. Adegboyega Awomolo, that the procedure adopted by members of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly to accommodate Governor Tanko Al-Makura an impeachment notice was erroneous.
Awomolo had cited the judgements of the Supreme Court on the potencies of lawmakers to impeach governors, verbally expressing that the accommodation of impeachment notice on the governor must be personal.
He had verbalized that having failed to accommodate the impeachment notice on the governor personally, the whole impeachment process would result in a nullity.
But verbalizing with journalists on Friday in Abuja, Ebute verbally expressed accommodation only betokened getting the requisites of bringing impeachment notice to the person for whom it was betokened.
He verbalized, “That implicatively insinuates that accommodation betokens getting the requisites of bringing impeachment notice to the person that it is addressed. That is pristinely a procedural matter and I am sure that the Nassarawa State House of Assembly must have its rules of procedure.
“I am sure my learned brother is vigilant that every state House of Assembly has its rules under which it regulates its procedure. So, if the Nasarawa State House of Assembly complies with the rules of procedure for superseded accommodation, then I cannot optically discern any fault with the mode of accommodation because the superseded accommodation was again carried by two-thirds majority of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly.
“That designates that if somebody is to be accommodated with impeachment notice and he keeps a very disservice, there is no other process of bringing the notice of impeachment to his attention? No. Definitely, the House has to utilize its rules and I am sure that the rules must have provided for superseded accommodation. And provided that ground to that order of superseded accommodation was carried by two-thirds majority of the House and the impeachment notice published in the newspaper, I cerebrate that is a licit accommodation of the notice of impeachment on the governor.”
Ebute verbally expressed even the Section 1 (88) of the 1999 constitution did not utilize the word “personal,” integrating that the constitution stipulated that the accommodation of the notice of impeachment had to be accommodated on the holder of the office.
He verbalized, “So, it deliberately omitted the word personal unlike the rules of court that you utilize the word personal accommodation. But I concur that to accommodate a notice on the holder of the office denotes the governor himself. That implicatively insinuates personal accommodation, but the word personal was not used and it is a principle of our law that whatever is not expressly verbally expressed is impliedly omitted. So, the accommodation is in order.”
Awomolo had cited the judgements of the Supreme Court on the potencies of lawmakers to impeach governors, verbally expressing that the accommodation of impeachment notice on the governor must be personal.
He had verbalized that having failed to accommodate the impeachment notice on the governor personally, the whole impeachment process would result in a nullity.
But verbalizing with journalists on Friday in Abuja, Ebute verbally expressed accommodation only betokened getting the requisites of bringing impeachment notice to the person for whom it was betokened.
He verbalized, “That implicatively insinuates that accommodation betokens getting the requisites of bringing impeachment notice to the person that it is addressed. That is pristinely a procedural matter and I am sure that the Nassarawa State House of Assembly must have its rules of procedure.
“I am sure my learned brother is vigilant that every state House of Assembly has its rules under which it regulates its procedure. So, if the Nasarawa State House of Assembly complies with the rules of procedure for superseded accommodation, then I cannot optically discern any fault with the mode of accommodation because the superseded accommodation was again carried by two-thirds majority of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly.
“That designates that if somebody is to be accommodated with impeachment notice and he keeps a very disservice, there is no other process of bringing the notice of impeachment to his attention? No. Definitely, the House has to utilize its rules and I am sure that the rules must have provided for superseded accommodation. And provided that ground to that order of superseded accommodation was carried by two-thirds majority of the House and the impeachment notice published in the newspaper, I cerebrate that is a licit accommodation of the notice of impeachment on the governor.”
Ebute verbally expressed even the Section 1 (88) of the 1999 constitution did not utilize the word “personal,” integrating that the constitution stipulated that the accommodation of the notice of impeachment had to be accommodated on the holder of the office.
He verbalized, “So, it deliberately omitted the word personal unlike the rules of court that you utilize the word personal accommodation. But I concur that to accommodate a notice on the holder of the office denotes the governor himself. That implicatively insinuates personal accommodation, but the word personal was not used and it is a principle of our law that whatever is not expressly verbally expressed is impliedly omitted. So, the accommodation is in order.”
